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Wink sent me an email about recalling all the hubs

We are incredibly sorry for the inconvenience caused here. As an apology, we'd like to extend a $50 gift card to Wink.com (Valid only for the next 48 hours on wink.com to make purchases, not redeemable for cash) -- Use code "WESOSORRY" at checkout.

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Not exactly a "deal" but sort of a deal for some. But more importantly a lot of people here use Wink and I'm posting for them in case they missed the email from Wink.

It appears almost all Wink hubs are hosed. They will replace them for free, but the important thing is that they are offering $50 of free Wink equipment but ONLY FOR 48 HOURS. I'm posting this here in case you got the email and missed it. Or you didn't get the email.

Here is the email:

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We're writing with some unfortunate information about your Wink home. Our commitment to delivering the most secure smart home platform possible has had an unintended consequence.

Your Wink Hub is now so secure that it is unable to connect to the Wink Servers. This means that you are no longer able to control your Hub-dependent devices with your Wink app. It also means your schedules and robots will not function.

To cut to the chase: We need your Wink Hub back. We'll update it and get it back to you within a few days. We've done all we can to make the process as simple as possible -- Just click here.

We're terribly embarrassed by this whole situation. This outage was completely preventable and caused by a security measure that was put in place to protect you and your family. Unfortunately we failed to make an update to a security measure that was expiring, and therefore locked down your Hub's access to the server.

As part of our response, we're immediately suspending all sales of Wink Hubs across all retail channels and expect to resume sales within the week.

We are incredibly sorry for the inconvenience caused here. As an apology, we'd like to extend a $50 gift card to Wink.com (Valid only for the next 48 hours on wink.com to make purchases, not redeemable for cash) -- Use code "WESOSORRY" at checkout.

If you would like to talk to a service representative, call us at 844-WINK-APP or find us on Twitter @TheWinkApp.

Same I put in an order for each of me three accounts that received the email. Hope they don't get cancelled

It may still work as long as this doesn't go above the 5+ thumbs up. After that it's doomed.

FYI the free hub for orders 100+ is still free after coupon is applied. EX. Find $100 in stuff, get a free hub. Out of pocket cost is $50+ shipping. You don't need to have received the email for the code to work.

We are incredibly sorry for the inconvenience caused here. As an apology, we'd like to extend a $50 gift card to Wink.com (Valid only for the next 48 hours on wink.com to make purchases, not redeemable for cash) -- Use code "WESOSORRY" at checkout.

I just placed two orders for the starter kits and it came out to 49.98 - 49.98 so it came out to free. Hope it doesn't get cancelled